campaign dirt

I’m sure you’ve all heard about the John Edwards Love Child Scandal. It’s sordid and tawdry, and could well be true. The National Enquirer has pretty good news chops, as Jack Shafer noted a few years ago.

Kaus says:

What to expect when you’re expecting: Drudge teases the National Enquirer … Update: The Enquirer posts the gist….. One initial point: There’s no reason to conclude this story was planted by one campaign or another. I’m familiar with how the initial Rielle Hunter/Edwards rumors, true or not, got to at least one news outlet–and no campaigns, Dem or GOP, were involved. It was a story going around–I’d been hearing it for months. Not all rumors are plants. And some are true. Even in the Enquirer. ..

Yep. And yuck.

Me, I’m wondering if this is the rumor Ron Rosenbaum heard a while back, and wrote about here and here.